When I was first embarking on the personal development journey, I remember a wise person telling me  that we go through three stages in life:

Growing up we accept and learn from those who surround us about life’s principles, values, norms and expectations; we adapt their belief systems

Later in life we realize that there are different ways of looking at the same subject, multiple belief systems and truths among people

Finally we arrive at peeling off all of the layers and questioning them with scrutiny – deciding for ourselves which beliefs we want to keep and which ones are not serving us any longer